From moscow thanks for joining us today on r. T. International welcome to the program. A top Level Exchange of accusations and rebuffs is raising the stakes over the sudden and so far unexplained illness of prominent opposition activist Alexei Navalny government spokesman to meet the press corps 5 dismissed all allegations of russian state involvement in the case as unacceptable absurd in their very nature it is just the latest retaught saw and trade statements but im correspondent joins us live now with more peter thanks for joining us now ever since this saga started. Calls. Should the russian gas to Europe Nordstrom to do you think the 2 are connected in any way. Well the German Government press briefing the lunchtime press briefing wrapped up on monday peppered with questions about north stream 2 i think just about every other question made reference to the Multi NationalInfrastructure Project the message coming out of the German Government is that as it stands at the moment north stream 2 is an economic project and its own connected to the no valley case starts as it stands however that could change depending on how things develop thats pretty much the same message were getting coming out of moscow with Dmitri Peskov the kremlin spokesperson saying that well it was too soon to lump nord stream too in with the no vonnie only case at the moment now moscow had been not very happy at all with berlin for what it said was dragging its feet when it came to sharing data and information on alexina vonnie would now have confirmation from the German Foreign minister that the process of getting that information that was requested over to russia has been greenlit and is on the way. Through does im very sort of weve already agreed to russias request fully Legal Assistance with all the Russian Ambassador this when we had a conversation with him last week who told him that if there was a request for a Legal Assistance we would agree to says there was no reason not to greeted. Well the new seems to lead to a change of tone in moscows approaches welt certainly less confrontational combative if you will from it Dmitri Peskov the kremlin spokesperson on monday certainly seems this the news this moscows requests would be answered is helping matters. Any minister and we have certainly noted the German Farmers the statement and the glove thats in the nearest timeframe the information will be delivered and that there are no reasons for this information not to be delivered bearing in mind the high profile of this issue we are counting on receiving the information in the upcoming days we very much awaited. Well elsewhere Prime Minister the United KingdomBoris Johnson was very quick to point the finger of blame at russia for Alexei Navalny illness just last week it now seems that a more cautious approach has been taken by london foreign secretary dominic robb was rolled out in front of the cameras and he said it was too soon to proportion blame for what happened to mr novelli. In the use of mobile chalk it doesnt matter the state actor of nonstate actor is a violation of International Law and lets be really clear about this were not yet in a position to attribute. Alexina valmy remains in hospital here in berlin doctors have said theres no acute risk to his life however they havent ruled out a potentially long term illness. Peter over there live from berlin with the latest update thanks for the update. Now. More than a 1000 people have gathered in russias new york overnight demanding accountability for the Police Killing of a black man the unrest there began after a Video Showing Police placing a sport heard on daniel prove what officer placed his hands on prudes head while another put his knee on prudes back that led to his suffocation death which happened in march will now be investigated by a grand jury meanwhile on saturday the city of Portland Oregon marked 100 consecutive days of black lives martin rallies triggered by the death of another black man george floyd. How accurate crew. Of 59 arrests have been made in the city over the weekend but the protests show no sign of relenting journalist and author daniel believes the armrest could continue into election day and beyond. But its breaking down were seeing our street fighting in our street fighting going on growing levels valving both on leftists and rightists. As a kind of a slow moving civil war that probably will continue until election day and then no one knows what will happen with the election because american electoral process these are so broken down that it may very well and up infighting and last trace be cancelled its the went ahead activists were denouncing Police Violence and demanding justice for the killing of a tailor in loose full armed police but im sure also marched through city and were confronted by black clubs might to protest this. One American Company seems to be cashing in on the unrest living far as make it smith and wesson a c. In sales jumped 140 percent this year thats around 134000000. 00 in extra sales. Again believes the gun boom is symptomatic of the countrys political stalemate. Both sides are arming i mean there are Guns Everywhere what if you go to one of these protests in places like the net midwest or the west you will see guns on both sides and its very dangerous and because people tend to use these weapons and so but the but theres no force capable of stopping this fighting because im it seems to have taken a life of its own and its just part of the whole political structure which is in an excel orating breakdown i mean america is a is a failed state and its failing effort more rapidly and these are these demonstrations these are these the street fighting is a symptom of. Over nationwide arrests against Racial Injustice largely stretching into novembers election day one side is warning only a block in victory can stop the violence democratic policy think tanks anything other than a win for them and will bring more chaos story still to come. Front says returning code restrictions off to another of cases its added 7 regions to its red zone less than 22. 00 schools have been closed just a week off the reopening leaving parents friends and aunties shot at the story. This is the 2nd week of school in france and already some of those schools have had to be closed down because of covert 19 within the institutional last week more than 12000000 peoples went back to the classrooms and that was with some parents and teachers expressing concern about the transmission rates of the virus because they have been really creeping up here in france last week several days there were more than 7000 cases wedged in a 24 hour period 22 schools have been shut in the last week but hundreds and hundreds of classes have also been closed down the education secretary here in france has been outlining when such a decision should be taken. Out of the 12 establishments colleges and schools were closed the main line france considering there are 60000 establishment in the country these numbers remain relatively low in the overseas reunion region we closed down that makes 22 in total function function well there are now 70 new zones in france that have been declared the red zones this means that they are areas with a high active transmission rate of 19 it means 28. 00 regions in total are considered rent in the french area and this allows authorities to impose extra controls to try to cool the transmission of the virus one of the measures that authorities can take when theyre in a red zone is to impose something such as the obligation to wear a face mask a public such as we have in paris which means every street youre in you have to wear a face mask but there is a backlash against such measures like that anti mask sentiment also being shown elsewhere across europe with protests over the weekend from places such as the u. K. In spain to italy. If you send. You. Flowers. Meanwhile here in france there are some calls for people to wear face masks specifically from the riders of the Tour De France which is making its way through the country at the moment its beg its fans who are coming out to the streets to wave them as they pass by to be responsible and to wear masks so it seems there is a huge divide still over the measures that are being used to try and curb 1000 whether thats wearing a mask whether thats a quarantine or whether thats imposing lockdowns local restrictions the methods being used to remain highly contentious. 2 months before the u. S. President ial election even happens them across party things thanks already predicting the consequences if their opponent wins apparently very no anything other than a joe biden win that will lead to violence caleb maupin examines the claims. In november the us public will get to vote on who becomes president for the next 4 years and figures from the media and political establishment are now preparing the public for possible outcomes something called the transition integrity project created in 2019 is planning for things that could go wrong during the upcoming vote and subsequent transition of power theyve been playing out war games and some rather interesting scenarios have been dreamed up with the exception of the big biden win scenario each of our exercises reach the brink of catastrophe but massive disinform ation campaigns violence in the streets and a constitutional impasse the transition integrity project is not the only outfits thinking along these lines hark fish an outfit funded by Michael Bloomberg does work for the Democratic National committee as well as pro biden super pacs is planning for hypothetical situations that involve mail and voting confusion when every legitimate vote is tallied and we get to that final day which will be some day after election day you will in fact show that what happened on Election Night was exactly that and the rush it looked like donald trump was in the lead and he fundamentally was not when every ballot gets counted hot fish predicts that such a situation could lead to donald trump refusing to step down and thats rather similar to the transition integrity project are you seeing a pattern here well the New York Times certainly has if trump claims a victory that is not rightly his a few munches in the streets will not be an adequate response that may have to be a sustained campaign of civic action as in hong kong and bella reuss to rally the majority that wants to preserve democracy that isolates those who would undo it trump is equated with civil unrest so naturally only bidens. Victory can save the country from chaos dont buy it and lets not forget another factor being thrown ian allegations of russian interference the allegation is that russia favors trump and denigrates biden so russia must be preemptively punished before the elections even happen to prevent meddling with us to draw upon the conclusion of the Intelligence Community to identify and target for sanctions all those determined to be responsible for ongoing election interference including any actives within the government of the Russian Federation and the russian act is determined to be directly responsible and those acting on their behalf providing material Financial Support for their efforts russia is also accused of spreading rumors about mail in vote were to undermine the us elections but its not really russia thats doing that unless of course the kremlin controls american t. V. Networks there are cases from just this last spring or were ballots have gone missing and turned up after the election so what happens when the post office is doing its absolute best as are humans fraud violence mail and voting already happening. Not speculating now the election is still 2 months away but they are already put caring for how to handle the results. Will be the hero and how they will tell you to react theyre already setting a climate where theres going to be massive speculation about widget in a sea of this election they said the exact same thing in 2016 that shrum well it is not going to do you could see the election if you loses and then what happened oh the democrats didnt concede hillary didnt concede we didnt with russia gate for 2 years if the democrats lose if joe biden loses in fact i think any supporter be smart to not be in there if they learn a liberal city its not be there on Election Night they are going to burn the place to the ground they know theyre going to lose and so theyre already setting up the game to further damage his presidency and to damage his 2nd term should he win so itll be another scandal itll be another local im absolutely Conspiracy Theory like russia gate maybe russia gay part 2 who knows. That i had a program but im away today on june and i saw his extradition to the us thoughts and love that i want to play today off to a decade of legal wrangling correspondence that we will check in with out right after this break. The world is driven by a drunk. Person. In a day or so thinks. We dare to ask. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy. Let it be an arms race. Spearing Dramatic Development only mostly. I dont see how that strategy will be very critical. To sit down and talk. Much the program extradition hearing of wiki leaks founder Julian Assange has begun its been postponed for months the coronavirus looked old leaving a song. Were going to have no idea it was dusty the court. Showed us thanks for joining us just tell us a bit more about the hearing and why its so important for songs. Well today is an incredibly important day for truth and justice especially for wiki leaks founder Julian Assange who is back here in court yet again today at the old bailey here in Central London for the hearing proceedings which will ultimately decide whether or not hes extradited to the United States now the hearing was supposed to happen much alyea in the year but due to the kind of it 19 pandemic that was postponed now earlier this morning im sure a van that was taking to the storage into court but outside court here at the old bailey weve also seen his fall back and indeed his partner morris who are she was moved into the criminal. Pleading for his immediate relief so today really doesnt open the new its almost a decade long attempt to prosecute Julian Assange by the United States arguing that this is one of the not just of compromises of classified documents in the history. Of the United States and so if hes found guilty and convicted he could face up to 175 years in prison and thats because the u. S. Has indicted him on 18 counts on the most nick the espionage act and so they want him to face trial for spying and publishing these classified military documents all related to the rule in iraq and afghanistan plus one Conspiracy Theory that government computer to then publish these documents but is joining to court it today was being very tumultuous indeed over the past few years because of course back in april of 2019 just last year he was infamously holed out of londons Ecuadorian Embassy by a british base right he was then seeking pretty good side of the generals to. A 52 week sentence at the belmarsh prison for skipping bell and 20 trout but what were seeing now is that a german m. P. Is urging the German Government to actually brought him from its politicized. I cool of the German Government to also Julian Assange political asylum in germany within the European Union my government if the German Government can bring the russian alexina vanya to the shard to listen why doesnt it make the same also its the seriously ill to get a song. Boat to the solyndra legal teams launches defenses may need based on his how not just this one patient of imprisonment being an obstruction of justice but also having a devastating impact on his health those well we know hes been in and out of the medical board out belmarsh prison many of his book receiving coming to the link is on the on a bit of a technology for the face of the being physically present if you are the well to be that aspect today that were hearing that from judas on his noise doesnt hold up to the blood line that they feel in the present with that noise in the last 6 months and we know that your response is physically inside the court here but in a golf course that he argues that this is an obstruction. Of the Justice System as well so the legal team are actually saying that journalists are just on the bit to be physically present to face trial in the United States on top of that its not just noise will also contend that the u. S. Is seeking to prosecute us on the political of offenses which that plagues them sent from extradition according to the u. K. U. S. Extradition treaty the prosecutors though they will try to establish that years on his actions were not political and in fact they really endangered lives and publishing these classified documents that this hearing will go i want the next 4 weeks or so when all eventually decide the fate of judas on whether or not he will be extradited campaign is there on the ground at the old baby had today say its not just here but as an adult today but in fact the right to freedom of press on the rights of the public to access information is also at stake here so extra back to try to get back to the right thing to start with not finding saddam simple because all the judge in this world why the 2nd bad press freedom is really at stake here as well. You know sought to grab the worlds medias attention so idea thanks for keeping us updated to best shot it was dusty outside that courtroom of the. American political activist and author norm chomsky told all hes going on the ground show would be deemed illegal if the u. K. For the United States. Cruel. To. d the u. S. There. Is no ready real. No she had good reasons not to as it would have been extra do it if youre not saying bill requires a tap on the wrist not torture in a high security prison. Up to the when reason not even a leader is allowed to receive books im in mass murderers or being treated in a way beyond the worst vicious criminal ok and if it is extradited it comes up for trial on the us espionage laws which even carry of attentional death. Its trial is being troy it were committed the crime of letting the general population know things that they have a right to know and that our full state still want them to know. About top story a top Level Exchange of accusations and rebuff so with a sudden and so far unexplained illness of russian Opposition Leader alexei in a valley and its bringing in a political analyst Chris Bambery to get some more insight on whats going on now chris thanks for joining us today and all to International Good to have you with us now initially promised the process and said the kremlin was involved now is far from secretary saying its too early to draw conclusions to attribute blame at least do you think this is a u. Turn on the off of the u. K. Government when it is the u. K. U. K. Government taking a cue from donald trump who is also say it that there is no proof that this is that was kind of by the russians so there is clearly strong dont go on here and for you know dont meet rob to contradict or is joins me this is relatively extraordinary but i think that it once again shows that washington leads and london folds and thats the usual asset you know meanwhile i think is also in the certainly in the media here in the United Kingdom theres a grueling coal for sanctions against russia. And in particular for Angela Merkel in germany to cancel the north to gas pipeline which is being proposed to bring energy directly from russia to germany and this seems to be a growing chorus in terms of the anglosaxon world that merkel has to act like carrying out real sanctions by canceling this pipeline do you think bidens desire to share data with moscow suggests a softening of this the fanatics than off. Well i think germany has always been a slightly different position i mean while wondering and washington usually usually you read the charts in terms of sanctions germany of course is much more economically tied into russia particularly over energy but not just energy and nerves or is moot washes about getting into a confrontation more school because those Economic Economic ties and you know and cancelling this pipeline would actually quite a serious blow to the German Economy is something. They desire so i think the germans have reasons to be much more cautious than weve seen so i think generally you know normally i dont expect london and washington to gether to be within the chase here they seem to be pulling back which seems to me to put in dont own narrative that weve been told that is poison case if new evidence does come to light that does some hope look at the trouble and this hypothetically there is pressure on a German Government here from outside from inside. The north stream pipeline could that change though if evidence comes to light or if the position of the u. K. And u. S. Changes well it will be pressure and there be pressure particularly if in that circumstance in that circumstance the evidence noches i suspect the americans and the british will once again as i say with the charge by demanding sanctions and putting pressure on germany and of course but then theres no is really no skin off their nose for the germans its a much bigger deal and i suspect there were other options if that was the case individual sanctions and so on and so forth but because theyve got nothing to lose here in those circumstances i think the british and americans would be putting pressure on Angela Merkel and of course here the brics in negotiations in the case of britain as extra space that so maybe this is not you know the british potentially see is down the road is being another way of putting pressure on the German Government to. Help them over the brakes in negotiations. Political analyst Chris Bambery thanks for joining us here at all to International Good to have you with us. Next discussing the book culture and how it helps or hinders the needs of working people the team and i are back in 30 minutes with alexa global news updates join us again that. Was a pandemic no certainly no borders and just plotting to nationalities. As a march we told the truth be we took a back seat the whole world needs to be. Judged as commentary prices please list until. We can do better we should. Everyone is contributing way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges create the response has been much so many good people are helping us. It makes us feel very proud that we are in it together. Seemed wrong all rolled just dont call. Me the all yet to say palate. Become active. And engaged with. The trail. Once on find themselves worlds apart. Just to look for common ground. Hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered im Peter Lavelle we are witnessing the rise of a new secular religion and its called the cloak ism at the moment in that short history its goal is to end racism why well everything is now considered racist the believers in this cult demand obedience insult criticism but were really never told how racism is to be eradicated or how it helps serve the interests of working people of all colors. To discuss this and more im joined by my guest john to bar in bristol she is the deputy leader of the Workers Party of britain as well as off the road the drive to war against russia and china her forthcoming book is identity politics and class and in budapest we have George Samuel he is author of bombs for peace natos humanitarian war on you it was right across our girls in the fact that music can jump an incoming want and i always appreciate it ok lets go to bristol jody what do you do you make of this. New secular religion because that its kind of quasi christian you know a little bit of composers a little bit a bit eventually mentalists style. And you know it has a with this ritual walls it has its hymns it has its clergy it has its script sure. And its making everybody miserable and it has nothing to do with fighting